It’s Fourth of July Eve, the 12th-most popular eve of them all. It’s also gorgeous outside, which means your favorite watering hole has broken out the patio furniture and the most deliberately gaudy piece of glassware: the schooner. I despise this awful drink innovation. This bloated goblet has ruined the…
There is a thing about guilty pleasures — other than the fact that we all have one — and that is we usually prefer to keep them out of sight of other humans. Sure, we might like to drink straight out of the milk carton or have a heart-felt air…
Budweiser has so many bad ideas. For instance, putting a Clydesdale’a handler alongside a parade route when children are milling about. Everyone knows a Clydesdale will make a run for it if it sees the handler who raised from a foal before selling it to a beer company. Horses slip…
The marriage of Spune Productions and The Common Table may be the best thing that has ever happened to local craft brew fans whose music taste extends beyond cover bands and Top 40 DJs as well as music fans who’d prefer something better than $8 pints of Bud Light. Saturday’s…
More than two hours in to the second iteration of Big Texas Beer Fest, I ran into organizer Chad Montgomery and asked him what beers he’d had so far that really impressed him. The answer shocked me: He hadn’t had a sip yet, he was so busy. Montgomery’s dedication to…
Yesterday I received a box full of suburban “camping” gear and a couple of sample beers from Shock Top, a package that stands as the perfect symbol of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s utter contempt for and cluelessness about the culture of craft beer. Packed inside a shock-resistant SwissGear Synergy laptop backpack, which…
Saint Arnold is now on No. 13 in its Divine Reserve series, with Monday’s release of a strong dark Belgian-style ale. As always, it’s a very limited release, with social media abuzz over sightings of the elusive beer. I called a few Dallas retailers Monday afternoon to find out if…
If a Kickstarter project out of California gets its way, you could soon be hitting on a robot when you just want a motherslugging drink, for the LOVE of God. On Wednesday, Eater National reported on the efforts of Party Robotics, a gaggle of drunk nerds who need a very…
It has been way too long since I used the old Hophead Ranking System, and I’ve been looking for a good reason to dust it off. So when Stone Brewing Co. sent a bomber of Stone Enjoy By 04.01.13 IPA, it seemed the perfect opportunity, and the time limit on…
Over the past two years, there’s been an unmistakable sea change in the way Dallas perceives and consumes beer. A market once dominated by the likes of Bud and Miller has slowly been infiltrated by Lakewood, Deep Ellum and Peticolas among several other burgeoning local breweries. Along with a wider…
Well, the writing was on the sober and empty shelves. For weeks now, all Centennial liquor stores have been apparently dying a slow death. According to the TABC website, all of their stores are listed in delinquency, which automatically stops all deliveries, which meant pickings got slim real quick at…
Saint Arnold Brewing will roll out a limited series of a new beer next week, but don’t put in a request for time off work just yet. The Icon series will be quarterly releases, rotating in style and not necessarily tied to the season, with new label art. On December…
The Common Table enjoys a good reputation among local beer lovers for the ever-changing array of brews it offers. But in the next few days, that reputation stands to get even better for the beers it won’t be pouring. “Starting next week, we will no longer be offering mass produced…
When Whole Foods announced it was installing bars in many of the chain’s grocery stores, I thought the idea would never catch on. Grocery stores are for grocery shopping, bars are for boozing and the two could never happily exist under one roof. The parking alone at most grocery stores…
The Boston Beer Co. has released its 10th anniversary batch of Samuel Adams Utopias, and it’s starting to turn up on shelves around town. I spotted some in the cooler at Goody Goody on Oak Lawn Avenue and had a private little beer-nerd laugh — clearly, the staff there is…
Anyone else have beer on the brain? Lauren’s cover story on the second rising of craft brewing in the DFW area and the Texas legislation that’s been smothering it has me dreaming of bubbling amber glasses of keg-nectar. Last night I stopped by the Libertine and ordered Lakewood Brewing Co.’s…
Oak Cliff’s annual Blues, Bandits and BBQ this weekend isn’t just an opportunity to gorge yourself on competition-worthy smoked meats. It’s also a historic moment for Dallas — the first chance to buy beer from Four Corners Brewing Co., one of the breweries featured in Lauren Drewes Daniels’ excellent story…
I went to the Meddlesome Moth on a whim yesterday for the Wednesday special tapping, without having looked up the beer to be featured. It turned out to be Left Hand Chainsaw Ale, about which I knew not a thing. I was about to Google it, and then decided it…
Founder Kevin Carr plans to have Community Beer Company open in November, joining the ever-swelling ranks of Dallas and Dallas-area breweries that were little more than dreams just a couple of years ago. Deep Ellum, Lakewood, Peticolas and FireWheel brewing companies are already established and available in bars (and lately…
The Serrallés family has been producing rum in Puerto Rico since family patriarch Don Serrallés imported a copper still from France and made his first batch in 1865. Almost 150 years later, the Serrallés family continues to produce the Don Q line of rums at their family distillery, Destilería Serrallés…
At first it was hard for me to shroud my disappointment. Sure, I was drinking outside in nice weather with access to more beer than I’ve ever had at my disposal in one location, but the monkeys were missing. BrewFest moved to the Art’s District after last year’s Brew at…
See also: The Full Break Down on BrewFest Update: spotramer1, and JustSaying won the tickets. See you all at BrewFest! While scattered thunderstorms can always be a bummer, Saturday’s forecast high temperature of 77 degrees has me seriously excited about this weekend’s BrewFest. Weather aside, participating breweries range from corporate…
